Architecture news / Archive»

• Building quickly and cost-effectively: edifices made entirely of small blocks of natural stone are popular in France
• Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building

Design news / Archive»

• Side table “Admeto” by Visionnaire: Marco Piva creates something completely new with a natural stone cladding
• The company Lundhs from Norway can be an example of how a natural stone company can successfully market its own materials with product design

Markets: Selling Stone»

• Ceramic tiles: joint video campaign by Italian and Spanish associations
• The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth

Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»

• Registration for digital “Marmomac Restart” from September 30 to October 02, 2020, is open
• Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020

Stone Stories»

• Over 100,000 years ago, fertile loess from the Negev helped the early humans on their way from Africa to Eurasia with the “land of milk and honey” in the Levant
• The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents

Art news / Archive»

• Mosaics of marble and glass that take the emptiness out of potholes in city streets and maybe even give them a sense of purpose
• “Break for Art” by the The Dallas Museum of Art: 10 minutes for a deep and unexited look at masterpieces

Briefly noted»

• Science: Sahara dust for the Amazon region, deep-sea coral reefs endangered by climate change, minerals‘ self-healing of irradiation damage, new findings about the Muqarnas vaults at the Alhambra
• TU Delft researchers develop the “living coffin” made from mushroom mycelium to accelerate dead human bodies to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil